On December 3, 2017, I and my student, Jessica Smoker, had privilege of leading worship for LCC’s International Christian Fellowship, which is an occasional English-language worship service led by staff and faculty.

Jess and I did an independent study on the Book of Isaiah that semester. We discovered that we are both musical, and decided that one of her assignments should be for us to craft a worship service structured around songs from Isaiah, and short teachings from the passages on which those songs are based.

I was partly inspired by the sorts of song-sermons that my father-in-law, Joe, used to lead. (The difference is that Joe would often compose all the songs in addition to the teaching! Jess and I didn’t write any songs this time…)

Obviously, all of these songs are written by other songwriters besides me and Jess, and the copyrights for the music are held by the original artists. The teaching portions belong to the individual speakers. (I’m not going to go crazy trying to track down permissions, etc., because there’s not really a benefit to it, and “intellectual property” is a made-up concept, anyway. I’ll take them down if I get sued. I can’t imagine why someone would come after a blogging educator/worshipper, when all music is free on YouTube, but stranger things have happened.)

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I’m a native North Jerseyan, living and learning in Eastern Europe…Old Testament professor, ordained minister, occasional liturgist…husband to Corrie…father to Daniel and Elizabeth…eldest sibling to three…uncle to Marshall and Leeland...son-in-law to Claudia.